silence russell would you love a journalist held by syrian rebels or with no news of her fate since the deadline passed for the execution. and is using to bridgend is accused of resorting to dirty policies or to drill for gas as it approves a technique criticized for destroying the environment. and washington looks at to clinch a deal that would let more u.s. troops and hardware into asia as china's new leader advises his military to prepare for such. it's nine am here in moscow you live with us on r.t.

good to have you with us the fate of ukrainian journalist held by syrian rebels remains on after read some deadline from a group threatening to execute her paused on her car was kidnapped by insurgents said to be from the free syrian army who she repeatedly accused of on juber tell it against civilians his policy of picks up the story. the journalist unhappy koch never was taken hostage in october and no homes in the opposition fighters they've accused her of being both a russian and a syrian spy she has appeared in two you tube videos that were released earlier by the free syrian army and in one of those ship pill to the embassies of ukraine and russia as well as to the syrian government to meet the demands of the kidnappers it's very difficult to say whether in fact these demands will in fact be met she read a text in those videos in arabic in which admitted to having participated in the fighting and having worked as a military interpreter with syrian and russian officers but engineers doubt the

authenticity of these videos believing that they were made while she was under duress now the ukrainian foreign ministry has also released a statement at least last month saying that officials were negotiating for her release but they did not offer sort of the details. reporters without borders has been among the most vocal in demand in the journalists release it and the other groups called on the syrian national coalition and the rebel free syrian army to secure her freedom immediately but as you're aware monsieur editor of news junkie oppose a doesn't hold out much hope the your position all we know you know me. but. it's going to be very. good only thing you know it's really easy in the end of the draw. but. by washington d.c. the. old guard and you walk

me through washington. know exactly when they are barking and what's going on. dr ali mohamad are from the syria tribe you know online magazine says complacency in pressuring the rebels to secure the ukrainian journalists' release is sending all the wrong signals. it's the word of wisdom or american citizens in particular here to. be sure to put some pressure to release the hostages. leave the. country is. a very local prophecy in very general going from being there were rumors of. people enjoying to support from the information going to be across. the future of the middle east and what role the international community has to play in it as the main theme of the latest edition

of cross talk the question of who bears responsibility for the strive gripping the region it's been debated at seven thirty g.m.t. . i wouldn't blame the united states for the sectarian divisions that existed in the middle east for hundreds of years and they were exacerbated by the iranian revolution you have. a theocracy in iran that has tried to shape the region according to its own interests and a lot of the sunni states resigned and of course the united states is allied with a lot of them including saudi arabia and you can achieve stability boys supporting . the saudi arabia which is the main trouble maker in the region which was caused balkan strong to be become such you know a haven for extremists and this is also the case in syria where because of sold the funding and precisely because of so do support you have all of these judges pouring into syria.

the u.k. government has given the green light to a controversial gas drilling technique known as fracking it's heavily criticized for its destructive environmental impacts including causing massive water pollution political has more. driller is the only company with a license to conduct fracking in the u.k. but that's all set to change now that the government has given its blessing for the controversial method of extracting shale gas from underground already operates several wells here in lancashire but the device of technology was temporarily banned last year and with good reason to the fracking taking place here because minor earthquake. felt like it was terrifying i'll be honest with you our local unpaid is doing very little he said i don't know a lot about it well he should know a lot about it you're going to turn this into. a line shareholders pockets this is

not going to benefit us and it will be a legacy toxic legacy for our children hundreds of miles away in london the capital's outspoken mayor calls shale gas the answer to the nation's prayers and the reserves in lancashire america but for residents here in this trying call corner of england it's a blight on their otherwise peaceful community and the prospect of more fracking sweeping the countryside is frightening and they keep talking about it being in line people and where those reserves are all the way down i think at the moment it's all about. how much better off will be but. the technology may raise fares but the promise of riches from the rush for shale gas has set politicians pulses racing despite mounting opposition which has spread beyond lancashire. struction using hydraulic fracturing techniques is

a high risk activity which has many benefits for foreign investors but very little for the people of britain fracking is a dirty energy. pollutes groundwater. it is a short and not very intelligent solution to energy problem. they're going to get money out of a drug program to. bring corrupt governments would do anything for money i think it's just sort of resource money they can just get the money so this is not really for the country's best interest i don't believe to do that right brussels isn't convinced either the european parliament is reportedly considering regulating the budding shale gas industry concerned that britain doesn't know what it's doing by throwing itself wholeheartedly into the controversial practice at the minute we are not self-sufficient and gas and haven't been for a very long time we were but in actual fact we import about half of gas now we see

that in the u.s. gas prices are a quarter of what they were untrue fact this suit to output this issue to prove print is much less so there are many reasons why she'll go us if it can be made to work and it would be attractive in terms of security of supply and also probably in terms of price stability and that's what's drowning out the warnings bringing down people's energy bills means politicians and big business can press ahead even though those living in the shadow of fracking facilities know that the government is playing with fire. r t. london has managed to keep economic decision making power in the e.u. after the blocks leaders agreed to the european central bank should become the main supervisor for banks in the euro zone britain has sticks to its own currency had feared moving to a banking union that could make it financially policies similar wolf from the u.k. independence party says the deal won't bring any benefits to his country. there is

a certain cabal of politicians and advisors in this country who are petrified that no longer going to be at the central table of europe in joining the late night events in the flash cars and hotels that they get the decision making the real buzz of being but there are those like me actually know politics that believe that being outside of this particular to about could actually influence. great great britain's influence when actually rise and we'd be able to trade more easily with the rest of the world because we're afraid of these regulations it's far from the christmas spirit in spain as thousands of people have taken to the streets of madrid protesting against austerity demonstrators lashed out at the government cuts to the education sector saying this already drastically damages the quality of teaching spanish authorities are desperately trying to avoid the economic ditch and the

bailout fate of other relations like greece portugal and ireland the country's nearly one hundred fifty billion euros in debt. just ahead amol revelations are surveys in a case which has been poisoning ties between russia and the. intelligence office and it sounded very good in london six years ago turns out to have been what agent . and iran is said to get nuclear talks back on track saying the un wants talks latest visit was productive still not allowing it to inspect the controversial part of the test site. the u.s. . military presence in south east asia with washington reportedly on the brink of a deal to rotate more troops and ships through the philippines territorial tensions in the area simmering and many say the move as an attempt to undermine china's

influence there and some say it's all a dangerously high stakes game. america does like to miss around with china i'm trying to stand up i taking sides in this dispute which between china and its neighbors it's really not because it cares one way or the other but the philippines though mrs clinton has called the stuff trying to see the west. that's a very strategic part of the world a lot of shipping through that area and. when there are so many players involved you cannot control them all and if one goes off then really it would be very hard to control the situation bring it under control. now it's round and built to last a chinese man provides for the predicted my an apocalypse with fantasy book style so vital parts get the full story on my website.

and also read such as from the scene of a building collapse in solomon russia which killed at least five people and injured over. the international scandal sponsored by the death of former russian intelligence officer alexander litvinenko is gaining momentum a british a pretty in question view has revealed that litvinenko was on the payroll of both the u.k. and spanish secret services when he was poisoned six years ago a court in london also appears to be implicated in the russian state and has made up more on this from marty's nora smith. this is not just about the sort of

salacious details of spying on the world that there is there are wider implications to this and of course there have been the maybe just stumbling block in the u.k. russian relations for the last six years since it happened and it comes up every time there's any kind of problem in the relationship between russia and the u.k. and of course the main problem at the moment is syria and how much involvement the international community could have in syria we hearing that the inquest lawyer has said that the u.k. government has material evidence that the russian state is guilty but interestingly under the law the english courts can't pass judgment on the lawfulness of the behavior of another state so that's an interesting point which i'm sure will come up again when the inquest is held but of course we've seen no details of this evidence which is interesting the u.k. government has kept its evidence very close to its chest meanwhile there is convincing evidence on the other side of course look at lawyer andrew you go boy

who's the u.k. police's main suspects in poisoning he recently passed a law a detector test administered by british experts in which he was specifically asked whether he has had any involvement in it because that he said no the lie detector test was passed by him also because only father told r.t. that he didn't suspect the kremlin or andrey lugovoy of having any involvement in his son's murder this inquest we're expecting it to take place next year and it's an inquest in which there will be huge media attention from all over the world and coming up later those solid states of stability. are the freezing temperatures in moscow there's a sense of brazilian cournoyer there about a president is in the ground promise not to meet with the russian leader on friday joining me going to school for war we are the south. the has concluded its mission to ciaran was good progress. coding to iran's envoy to the

nuclear watchdog however the two sides of fail to agree on the inspection of a military base in passion which is a suspected on nuclear weapons related activity there will be more negotiations engendering the u.s. meanwhile announce new economic sanctions against iran blacklisting twelve companies and individuals associated with iran's nuclear energy program but such pressure only delays any significant results of the talks says chris bambery the international socialist group. you know these negotiations are because i don't hate a world on the table hold on the table not the way some of the demands are suppressed by washington which is what continually happened here we continue military buildup and the sanctions which are going on against iran are not helping the situation i think one of the. leading functions as a concession if you or i go down the road for the. responders for the well for from do you know continue to up the ante by increasing french and an increase in the

motor brush of many iranians know any equine dote on that it will be some sort of national disgrace although when donald made in your marine you knew only you could program i thought about shorn of national pride toronto has consistently denied that its uranium enrichment has any military dimension while israel claims the opposite and has threaten is trying to response as merry as a national reports which will mistrust between iran and the international community has already claimed victims. three decades of pride followed by three years of mourning when a man syria met her future husband a young physicist she immediately knew he'd come a long way indeed he went on to become one of the runs leading nuclear scientists until it all ended one sunny morning in january two thousand and ten missions that were the reason you left to work and then i heard

a terrible explosion i rushed to see what happened he was lying like this so. i called most who'd must must. must i thought he was just scared then i turned to him there was no face just blood in tissues he was the first victim in a gruesome trend associated with his work since two thousand and ten at least three other nuclear scientists have been murdered in iran doesn't care if they were working hard so their country didn't need to beg other nations for no house we have the right acquires this knowledge and feel independent means when men series husband began embarking on his nuclear career it was not a life threatening occupation in the seventy's western countries were eager to help iran develop its own nuclear program supplying into with technology with no strings attached that changed when the iranian regime d.d.

would weigh in as inalienable right became its biggest liability iran. would be emboldened in its pursuit of nuclear weapons billions of dollars have been pumped into the industry before the revolution at the time of the shah why should they give up now just because western powers say son while iran's nuclear program is now a target of western political discourse there is only suspicion and no internationally recognized evidence that the country's moving towards build an atomic weapon iranian officials believe all this. attention is fabricated with the same purpose to demonize them in the eyes of international community if you have no youth in your kitchen and some of the recent concert contour and said go or no if it's very dangerous maybe you want to use it to some. this is very. jor king are you via the perceived fear is that the iranian regime can't

be trusted with a nuclear capacity but even those who want a total change of leadership see should be non-negotiable for the country would look pretty sure has come right here on myanmar. across the board but even here. it was. kind of a struggle between iran. even. want blood pumping blood cells and their life which is preventing the blast that killed them and serious husband was seduced shown that the clock in the living room stopped at the time of his death both the west and iran are equally failing to move forward iran has long insisted on its rights to develop a peaceful nuclear program but suspicion in the west has led to more and more severe sanctions the more iran resists the more the pressure builds and both sides show little sign of giving up and while the west says only dangerous intentions

people here in iran believe it's all down to pride and prejudice. in our tea from teheran israel is using iran as a convenient bogeyman to justify its own nuclear weapons program this is according to iran's former top diplomat in an interview with our team that's coming up in full next hour but here's a preview even today israel is the are always using your own issue. to justifying the nuclear bomb. saying iran is existential threat for israel but the fact is israel is that. produced nuclear bomb before is wrong solution because. the shah of iran was the alloy of israel. israeli nuclear bomb has nothing to do with iraq because it was massed produced before of revolution now they are

using islamic revolution in order to justify which i would not boy this argument. i'm a growing global financial uncertainty filled by your absurd troubles the leaders of two of the world's key fast growing economies are meeting in moscow on friday but zillion president dilma rousseff is on a visit to the russian capital more on the talks for marches evolved. brazil and russia may be on the opposite sides of the planets but the two have more in common than it may seem a vast natural resources to help provide rapid economic growth neither brazil or russia have been hit as hard by the economic crisis as the us where we've seen massive layoffs and the economy's been unstable or the european union where there is the debt crisis the euro crisis and also

a significant reduction of jobs in brazil and russia are also members of the alliance of giants which also includes china india and south africa i'm talking about bricks of course brazil is russia's largest trade partner in south america the trade turnover is currently standing at around six and a half billion u.s. dollars which isn't that much compared to. russia's european partners but that you want to see this figure exceed ten billion in the near future there's great potential for that sense other already various working projects in two years like energy. aviation car manufacturing and so on before coming to moscow madam president reminded that she's part gary and for her the strip a sort of a return to her roots it's also her birthday today by the way so there is great enthusiasm about this meeting and of course we'll report more about it as soon as it happens here in moscow later on friday. to some other international news in

brief now susan rice has been drawn to name from contention for the pace of u.s. secretary of state she's been under fire from republicans ought to have michelle comments on the deadly raid on the american consulate in benghazi and claimed it had not been a terror attack announcement make senator john kerry the frontrunner to replace hillary clinton when she steps down next year. tens of thousands of people have gathered in the streets and squares of north korea as they rallied to celebrate wednesday a successful rocket launch was widely condemned around the world including by the un but washington and the european i live demanding more sanctions of up young young north korea claimed the rocket to put a weather satellite into space and made accusations it was a disguised missile test. the british government will pay over two million pounds as compensation to the family of a prominent libyan dissident he claimed britain's am i six or played

a key role in his rendition from hong kong to tripoli where he was later tortured by the gadhafi regime into an exam the u.k. also paid millions sure number of guantanamo bay inmates to avoid a potentially embarrassing investigation after the london of a cozy relationship with does this despotic regime. while most of all your approach as it is economic hysteria gee this is a different kind of discontent rising in germany and all sorts of people have spoken out against the return of a ban on sex with animals artie's peter oliver reports one billion. well i know mom's best friend and sometimes more than that. i need an animal to be happy if i did not have it there would be something missing there are some levels of relationship with an animal that you can fall in love with your animal and then the sexual relationship is not out of the question it's about

these people make up some of the estimated one hundred thousand zoo or files in germany and i will have started slowly more like child's play some kids playing doctor with each other and it's not necessarily sexual but somewhat small experimentation that leads you further down the path. technically it has been illegal since the country's animal welfare laws were relaxed in one nine hundred sixty nine that sex with animals was dropped from the start should books. it has led to a boom in the practice and the proliferation of websites and even brothels devoted to it after new laws approved this week come into force the practice will again be considered illegal this group claim there will be a witch hunt when it comes into force. the way this law is written means that all you need is a rumor or accusation for the agency to get involved in take your pet away it also affects not just those who practice best theory where for example and then you will

have certain issues and all you need is a suggestion that this could have happened through sex and you got into an accusation spiral that reminds you of very dark times in german history. of these you affiliate campaigners say that here in the german parliament there legislating against morality however the lawmakers themselves say that it's only the welfare of the animals that they care about. we're not policy and morality we're improving animal protection law we would like to specify that it's forbidden to cause suffering through a sexual relationship but the line is when you cause suffering to an animal for your personal sexual gratification. denmark sweden and belgium currently the only e.u. states with a filial law that leaves the prospect that these countries could become a destination for a zoo a fellow tourism german animal rights activists hope the move by the bomb the star

who become a europe wide band. yes we would support the european wide band and be fairly t. where stand behind other nations and we need to catch up. just outside of berliners one of the largest animal shelters in europe consent is a major issue while those involved an animal welfare say must be addressed as dogs are loyal even when they're abused they're still going to look as if they're happy especially when it gets enough to eat ducks will be happy whatever you dictate but there is not a sign that the dog is enjoying it those in relationships with our littles though are confident that their love is legitimate in fear for the future because that's you want the fantasize about castrating you're taking my animals away our friend has found a razor blade in this post with a note do it yourself so we don't have to wear is don't arrive too often but the

arrive every now and then in the subway someone was yelling at me calling me names i'm concerned that attacks could become physical. these are all over r a t charity coming up politics and economics on capital account as loyalist takes a look at the global financial headlines. live. live. live. live.

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